Good for him.

Oh man, he REALLY shouldn't have given out his guild and server name...

I'm sorry, but if he has Asperger's rather than full-on ASD, I'm the fucking Antipope.

Best response-to-internet-ridicule video I've seen yet; kid's either just naturally cool and savvy, or else has been studying up. Either way: very cool. He's going to go far.

Still nerd.

>> ^PoweredBySoy:

Still nerd.


Still hitting them corners in them low lows girl

>> ^Gallowflak:

I'm sorry, but if he has Asperger's rather than full-on ASD, I'm the fucking Antipope.


So you're this guy? http://videosift.com/video/Zlad-I-Am-The-Anti-Pope-Zladko-Zlad-Vladcik

Antipope.. lions eating antelopes. lmao



>> ^EDD:

>> ^Gallowflak:
I'm sorry, but if he has Asperger's rather than full-on ASD, I'm the fucking Antipope.

So you're this guy? http://videosift.com/video/Zlad-I-Am-The-Anti-Pope-Zladko-Zlad-Vladcik

http://i.imgur.com/FRLiJ.jpg
YES

>> ^ajkido:

>> ^PoweredBySoy:
Still nerd.

Still hitting them corners in them low lows girl


ahhahahah!

>> ^Raaagh:

http://i.imgur.com/FRLiJ.jpg
YES


Beat me to it! Yeah they added him to the game...who knows if he'll stay but they did fix the problem.

@ant and @BoneRemake

Could I ask you guys why you downvoted that comment?

>> ^Gallowflak:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/ant" title="member since March 2nd, 2006" class="profilelink"><strong style="color: rgb(0, 136, 0);">ant and @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/BoneRemake" title="member since July 27th, 2009" class="profilelink">BoneRemake
Could I ask you guys why you downvoted that comment?


Why and which one(s)?

>> ^Gallowflak:

I'm sorry, but if he has Asperger's rather than full-on ASD, I'm the fucking Antipope.


@ant

That one, and because I'm not sure why.

>> ^Gallowflak:

>> ^Gallowflak:
I'm sorry, but if he has Asperger's rather than full-on ASD, I'm the fucking Antipope.

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/ant" title="member since March 2nd, 2006" class="profilelink"><strong style="color: rgb(0, 136, 0);">ant
That one, and because I'm not sure why.


I already did that yesterday.

Weird. I watched the original video and saw a nervous person asking a reasonable question who subsequently made an excellent point. I saw nothing that needed 'defending'.

Geez, can't we be human?

ASD

does no one else hear that infernal beeping!?

Cause you either insulted that kids intelligence or honesty or both.

Like he's too stupid or deceitful to properly name his condition. = /

>>^Gallowflak:

@ant and @BoneRemake
Could I ask you guys why you downvoted that comment?

While this was discussed in a different manner in the original video thread, this is a typical thing for someone dubbed a 'nerd' to do. It is also the expected response. Whether we like it or not, at a younger age, people with higher voices or a certain 'look' are mocked ridiculed for the simple fact that humans are an aggressive testosterone filled race of beings. They mock the weak and ridicule anyone different from the accepted norm. While aspiring to be smart and brainy should be a normalcy most would strive for, it is usually someone such as red shirt guy who does not have as may options for 'normal' entertainment of young people such as sports and outdoor activities.

So instead of asking can't we be human, we should be asking why can't we be better to other humans.
>> ^ObsidianStorm:

Weird. I watched the original video and saw a nervous person asking a reasonable question who subsequently made an excellent point. I saw nothing that needed 'defending'.
Geez, can't we be human?

f u siftbot

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

Cause you either insulted that kids intelligence or honesty or both.
Like he's too stupid or deceitful to properly name his condition. = /
>> ^Gallowflak:
@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/ant" title="member since March 2nd, 2006" class="profilelink"><strong style="color: rgb(0, 136, 0);">ant and @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/BoneRemake" title="member since July 27th, 2009" class="profilelink">BoneRemake
Could I ask you guys why you downvoted that comment?



EXACTLY. and your a jackass for asking for an explanation in public. p2p that stuff, not that reasons have to be given but if your are sincere in your question, this is no forum for it.


* not in the mood for vs/siftbot retardation right now, twice I fucking quote and this stupid garbalygook shit comes up *

read between the coded lines for ANY clue as to wtf I am talking about.

>> ^Stu:
While this was discussed in a different manner in the original video thread, this is a typical thing for someone dubbed a 'nerd' to do. It is also the expected response. Whether we like it or not, at a younger age, people with higher voices or a certain 'look' are mocked ridiculed for the simple fact that humans are an aggressive testosterone filled race of beings. They mock the weak and ridicule anyone different from the accepted norm. While aspiring to be smart and brainy should be a normalcy most would strive for, it is usually someone such as red shirt guy who does not have as may options for 'normal' entertainment of young people such as sports and outdoor activities.
So instead of asking can't we be human, we should be asking why can't we be better to other humans.
>> ^ObsidianStorm:
Weird. I watched the original video and saw a nervous person asking a reasonable question who subsequently made an excellent point. I saw nothing that needed 'defending'.
Geez, can't we be human?



Agreed. I believe that was the implication of my post. Thanks for making it more explicit.

If people didn't want anyone to use stereotypes, then they shouldn't fit so well into them... just sayin.

^BoneRemake:

EXACTLY. and your a jackass for asking for an explanation in public. p2p that stuff, not that reasons have to be given but if your are sincere in your question, this is no forum for it.
not in the mood for vs/siftbot retardation right now, twice I fucking quote and this stupid garbalygook shit comes up read between the coded lines for ANY clue as to wtf I am talking about.



Looking at the code, looks like a bunch of less than and greater than braces are being translated to printable characters rather than staying as markup. I notice this happens sometimes when someone uses smilies too.

@BoneRemake, @ant and @GenjiKilpatrick

Sorry, I didn't realize it ought to have been done in PMs. I'll ask you privately.

[redacted]

@Mcboinkens

Asperger's didn't "come" from anywhere in the sense that it's not a fabricated contrivance, nor is it dismissable as a malfunction of personality. The condition existed long before it was defined, recognised and understood. Parkinson's disease, although entirely unrelated to ASD, also existed well before it was defined in the early 1800s. People can often be found to view Asperger's in a similar way to ADHD; a made-up condition to explain and justify deficient characters. This can always be attributed to shoddy human empathy and solipsism.

The trouble with the autistic spectrum, and Asperger's also, is that it's... Well, a spectrum. The symptoms and their intensity vary enormously between different people and no one, generalized definition seems to work very well. There's often said to be a triad of deficiencies, though; social interaction, communication and creativity.

Your classmate sounds like a fucking jackass. Very gifted? Please. It's true that a number of figures in history have, or may have had, Asperger's or a related condition, but this is incidental. Autistic people often like to exaggerate the "beneficial" consequences of autism as a means of justifying themselves to others. I regard it both as valuable neurodiversity and, in most cases, disability.

Just some advice, though... If your intent is to avoid being disrespectful, you should also be avoiding words like "disease".

But who gives a fuck.

The only thing classifying these diseases does is go against survival of the fittest and the natural culling of nature. There's a reason humans made it so far and so fast, no dead weight.

[redacted]

>> ^Stu:

The only thing classifying these diseases does is go against survival of the fittest and the natural culling of nature. There's a reason humans made it so far and so fast, no dead weight.


Haha. You're adorable.

@Mcboinkens

Firstly, I appreciate the fact that you do actually seem to be interested and confused about autism. This is about as far off topic as I'd ever willing to go, and I'm not sure that I can do the subject justice in this particular venue, but I can clear up a few things.

Super-high-end Autistic = completely isolated within their own mind, extreme behaviours, screaming and flailing while looking at spinning objects, that kind of thing. In other words, completely disabled.

Low to mid Autistic, inc. Asperger's = mild-to-moderate social dsyfunction, from general social discomfort and occasional awkwardness to intense anxiety, panic attacks, inability to read faces and social/emotional cues, complete lack of empathic simluation of others, no "theory of mind", intense fascinations and obsessions, taking things completely literally, et cetera.

"but is it a true disorder or is it just that these people didn't develope the skills as much as the rest of the population?"

There's a huge genetic correlation. If two autistics have a kid, it'll have at least some autistic traits, and it doesn't seem to learned behaviour in the same way Borderline might be. The neurology of autism isn't something that I'm going to get into for now, though.

There's been some stuff recently about how everyone is on the autistic spectrum, at least to some degree. I think this is useless, nonsensical tripe, and while there may be something to the idea, there is a point at which it becomes a disorder, in that it significantly impacts the behaviour or experience of an affected person. I think this is the point at which someone should be considered "autistic". Anything else is academic.

I'm not sure that I've responded to everything, but I have to go and hug myself in front of a mirror for a while.

^Gallowflak:

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videogames.videosift.com/member/BoneRemake" title="member since July 27th, 2009" class="profilelink">BoneRemake, @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videogames.videosift.com/member/ant" title="member since March 2nd, 2006" class="profilelink"><strong style="color:#008800">ant and @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videogames.videosift.com/member/GenjiKilpatrick" title="member since March 14th, 2009" class="profilelink">GenjiKilpatrick
Sorry, I didn't realize it ought to have been done in PMs. I'll ask you privately.


This right here is one of the reasons I dig the Sift and still come here despite not contributing much in the way of videos. MOST of the time, people here are chill and actually make an effort at being civil human beings.

edit: ell oh ell sifty, your code is showing buddy.